SOLVED First BUILD - Failure

[JDJudd]

Hi all - thanks for your encouragement and help as I embarked on my first pedal build.

I grabbed, PedalPCBs Mahayana Drive (Zendrive) and followed the guides available in this forum. I also followed The Tone Geek's video of his build of this same PCB.

I ordered the wrong potentiometers with my initial Tayda order, so after waiting for the right parts to show up and finishing my wiring, I was SUPER excited to try this thing out.

... but ... nothing.

Here's the gutshot:



What do you notice that I've done wrong?

 

[Nostradoomus]

Are you sure the polarity of that 9V battery adapter is correct?

Do you measure 9V on both ends of the diode, or only one end?

This sounds like it might be a reverse polarity situation.

That’s why I asked to see the power connections

 

[JDJudd]

That’s why I asked to see the power connections

This community is incredible. I really appreciate that I’ve had multiple people reach out to me.

 

[Markus Kersius]

We've all been there.
And that feeling.. when you just put heart/soul/elbowgrease in building a pedal then finding out when testing it:

nothing..

Aaaarghh!! ?

 

[BuddytheReow]

Ah, the feeling of that first strum when your build is complete and works. You can’t fake that.

 

[twebb6778]

Glad to hear you got this one worked out!